Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
SAUL BELLOWIf women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
More Saul Bellow Quotes
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A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn’t tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.
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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
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I’ve never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn’t have a price tag on the other side.
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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what’s in it – they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
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What is art but a way of seeing?
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I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you’ve fallen into good hands – someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.
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I’m glad I haven’t lived in vain.
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